Business Sponsorship Opportunities for Feast are Now Open

Every year we look to local businesses to sponsor and support this event, helping to raise funds for our mission to protect and preserve the architectural heritage of Albany.

What does this mean your business could be a part of?
> Providing low and free-cost programs that educate and empower (our tours and free hands-on workshops)
> Assisting people who need help with their historic houses
> Advocating for the architecture of the city
> Operating our ever-growing salvage Warehouse
> Running our new Tool Lending Library.

We have several sponsorship levels ($250-$10,000)  which include the following benefits:
> Your business logo on the invitation (mailed to nearly 2,000 households), logo onsite event signage, log on HAF and auction websites, and logo on event program
> Recognition on our social media (a primarily local audience of 6,000)
> Sponsorship profile and recognition on our e-newsletter (audience of 3,500)
> Entry to the event

#Feast 2023 will be on Saturday, April 22nd. Write it in your diary and calendar - we have already been working on making this event as unique and fun as ever! We will host the party in the NYS Museum and will be sending out invitations to join the honor committee within the next few weeks. Thank you for your support!

Find out more & Become a Sponsor

Last Chance to take our
End of Year Survey

What Do you Want to see from 2023?

Thank you for all your wonderful feedback! It is giving us some great ideas for what we can do moving forward to continue our mission of preservation.  We will be gathering up all the answers to digest next week, so if you haven't taken our survey please do so now!

We want to know how to keep evolving to best serve our community, and that starts with always being present and asking questions - take the survey below.

Take the Questionnaire Here

DUTCH CONSULATE TOURS 48 HUDSON

Executive Director Pam Howard and Director of Preservation Serves Cara Macri were honored to give representatives from the Dutch Consulate a tour of 48 Hudson yesterday.  The Dutch contingent included Consul General Ahmed Dadou, Cultural Attache Monique Ruhe, incoming Senior Cultural Officer Shomara Roosblad and current Cultural Officer Sophie van Doornmalen.  The visit was part of Ms. van Doornmalen's goodbye tour of friends and cultural sights as she will be leaving the Consulate next week.  We were pleased to meet her replacement to continue our relationship, as they have taken a genuine interest in our project at 48 Hudson.  We wish Sophie the best in her new career at the Rijksmuseum.

What's New in the Warehouse?
Rev Up Your Lighting!

While lighting in Colonial America was in fact plainer and less shiny than that which we saw emerge in the Colonial Revival Period that tapered off in the 1940s, the Warehouse has a selection of some alternatives that historical decorators would consider not only passable but pleasing. These two chain-suspended hurricane-style pendant lights for instance…

One features a distinctive, very attractive squat milk-glass globe and frosted chimney with a brushed-brass body and gas-light-style supporting arms. It measures approximately 15 ¾” wide by 15” tall (not including chains) and is likely of midcentury manufacture. Also probably of midcentury make is this two-toned metal hurricane pendant light. With a shade a little reminiscent of historical tin examples, it has an antiqued brass body and measures approximately 16” wide by 24” tall.

And for the truly grand Colonial space…

There is this gleaming, majestic, 36” wide by 42” tall chandelier. A “chandelier” in the truest sense in that it provides light via (albeit artificial) candles—15 of them!—it is quintessential of the Flemish style that emerged in Europe in the 1400s.

Flemish chandeliers were the first to reveal, reflect, and amplify the light of their candles by incorporating bright brass, delicate upward-curving arms, and design forms like balusters and orbs commonly referred to as “Dutch balls.”

The popularity of “Flemish” or “Dutch” chandeliers spread in part throughout Europe via the art of the Dutch Masters in works like Jan Van Eyck’s 1434 painting “Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife” and even more recognizably in Gerard Dou’s 1764 “The Music Lesson.”

So, if you have a Colonial Revival house but don’t prefer the wood, punched tin, or wrought iron lighting of the 1600 and 1700s, stop by the Warehouse and check out our selection!

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